The Daily Wire reported that court documents uncovered two memoranda—dated May 26 and June 1—that appear to suggest that Chief Hennepin County Medical Examiner Dr. Andrew Baker concluded George Floyd did not die by Derek Chauvin’s knee, but by a fentanyl overdose. The report revealed that officials found “no physical evidence suggesting” that he had died of asphyxiation.
“AB (Andrew Baker) said that if Mr. Floyd had been found dead in his home (or anywhere else) and there were no other contributing factors he would conclude that it was an overdose death,” a memo said, dated for June 1, outlining a May 31 virtual with Dr. Baker.
The memos appear to be in blatant contradiction to the Armed Forces medical examiner and Hennepin County medical examiner’s final analysis that concluded Floyd’s death was the product of a homicide.
“His death was caused by the police subdual and restraint in the setting of severe hypertensive atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease, and methamphetamine and fentanyl intoxication,” the Armed Forces medical examiner found, FOX 9 reported.
Floyd passed away on May 25 after an arrest was made that ended in officer Derek Chauvin kneeling on the 46-year-old’s neck for several minutes. Video clips of the incident went viral on social media, sparking destruction and mayhem across the country.
The Daily Mail published a story earlier this month that showed a lengthier version of the footage leading up to Floyd’s death, which shows him resisting arrest and saying that he cannot breathe before anyone had even laid a hand on him.
FOX 9 reported on one memorandum that was filed on May 26 regarding a virtual meeting with Dr. Baker, who said that the medical examiner concluded that “the autopsy revealed no physical evidence suggesting that Mr. Floyd died of asphyxiation.”
“Baker told the attorney his investigation was incomplete pending a toxicology report, however,” the report added.
The second memorandum, filed on June 1, showed that Baker said “Floyd’s level of fentanyl was ‘pretty high,’ and a potentially ‘fatal level,’” FOX 9 reported.
The Daily Wire reported that the June 1 memorandum said: “AB (Andrew Baker) said that if Mr. Floyd had been found dead in his home (or anywhere else) and there were no other contributing factors he would conclude that it was an overdose death.”
However, independent medical examiners who were hired by the Floyd family listed the 46-year-old’s death as “traumatic asphyxia due to the compression of his neck and back during restraint by police,” the court filings revealed.
The memo added that “the findings could be incomplete because they were awaiting microscopic slides, pictures and other evidence from the Hennepin County Medical Examiner’s report,” FOX 9 stated.
The Daily Wire reported earlier this month that Earl Gray, an attorney for Thomas Lane, one of the four former Minneapolis police officers charged in the death of Floyd, suggested charges be dropped against his client because Floyd died from a drug overdose.
“All he had to do is sit in the police car, like every other defendant who is initially arrested. While attempting to avoid his arrest, all by himself, Mr. Floyd overdosed on fentanyl,” Gray wrote.
“Given his intoxication level, breathing would have been difficult at best. Mr. Floyd’s intentional failure to obey commands, coupled with his overdosing, contributed to his own death.”
Some of the country’s largest cities have been submerged in riots and destruction since Floyd’s death, with leftist politicians and journalists suggesting that the police force be defunded, charging the institution with systemic racism and brutality toward black people. Floyd’s death has also sparked a number of race hoaxes, which have been pushed by left-leaning news outlets.